Thanks for the tips… Like I said, I tried it once upon a time, and it didn’t work… So I came here and searched, and nearly everyone I saw replying was saying the same thing, it required Intel proc with QuickSyncVideo (I guess at the time I took it to mean a CPU/GPU combo), and then I read the page you gave us that I screenshotted, and came to the conclusion it wouldn’t work simply because I didn’t have an Intel chip, so I didn’t bother going further… Now that I know it’s possible, I’m sure it’s something silly that’s preventing it, and I can likely figure it out 
the article could probably use an update with better clarified info
the main point is this;
what matters is the GPU.
for hardware transcoding, the gpu has to be supported and new enough to support the content that is being converted.
the 4k faq above has links to both intel and nvidia gpu charts which show which gpus support what codecs.
the cpu shouldn’t matter as long as nothing else is preventing plex from detecting or initializing the HW transcode process.
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Yeah, I will agree there, the article definitely needs to be updated for clarity It should be relatively easy to figure out, I will dedicate some time for it tonight…
I would like to do Tanscoding via the nvidia chip. My specs are below
5960x
64GB of Ram
2080 TI NVidia 11GB
10gb ethernet to a synology nas that has 6 - 12TB Exos Drives in it in RAID 5
I stream in my house to 5 tv’s at once and play games on this same PC but during the day I would like to offload more to the graphics card.
So, I got home last night, turned on Hardware Acceleration, and it all worked without flaw. Thanks! I am not sure what prevented it when I tried it the first few times, but it’s definitely working now…
For those interested:
AMD Ryzen 2700x
Nvidia 1070Ti
Windows 10
Hardware accelerated transcoding works in the above combination.
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awesome, thanks for confirming.
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